Now’s the time to plant thyme for your fall and winter garden

Here are five things to do in the garden:

Thyme . Thyme is the most cold-hardy herb and is therefore suitable for the fall and winter garden. Even if it should die back in a hard freeze, it will regrow when the weather warms. Thyme is divided between creeping and upright types. Creeping thyme is more useful as a garden ornamental, trailing out of containers or bordering planter boxes, and is often promoted as for filling in gaps between pavers. However, the heat of our interior valleys requires that it be protected from hot afternoon sun. When it comes to culinary use, upright thyme is more practical since it gives you more foliage for your purposes and may also be used as a pollinator plant due its attraction to bees. Plant thyme and tomato plants together since their bloom times coinci